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Patent GB-2441683-A (GB)
Title: System for running oilfield tubulars into wellbores and method for using same
Inventor: BOULIGNY VERNON J JR
IPC: E21B19/20
Filed: 2006-06-08
Abstract: A four-cornered, open frame, connected either to a top drive or to a traveling block, has an elevator at its lower end used to support the weight of the tubular string, and has a mud tool, a stabber, a guide, a spinner, a tong, a stabbing guide and a backup tong carried by the frame. A manipulator arm picks up a horizontal tubular, manipulates the tubular to vertical, and moves the tubular into the interior of the frame, allowing the tubular to be made up in the string while the string is being lowered into the wellbore.
Patent GB-2455305-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle display connection arrangement for image and antenna signals
Inventor: YEH CHIN-FA
IPC: A47B81/06
Filed: 2007-12-04
Abstract: A connection arrangement for image and antenna signals of an automotive display includes a male connector (30) disposed within a positioning base of the seat back (15) and a female connector (50) embedded into the rear side of the display (40). The male connector (30) is positioned at the bottom of the slot (21) of the positioning base (20) and consists of a plurality of male terminals (31) horizontally arranged and electrically coupled to an automotive audio/video player. An antenna plug (34) is respectively fitted at both sides of the male terminals (31). The female connector (50) includes an upper row of insertion holes (51), a lower row of insertion holes (51), and antenna jacks (53) for a practical connection to the male connector (30) in an obverse direction and a reverse direction. The front and rear sides of the face end of a control circuit board (70) includes first signal contacts (71) and second signal contacts (72) opposing to the rear end of the female terminals (51a),(52a) of the insertion holes (51),(52) of the upper and lower rows. The signal contacts (71),(72) are adapted to be a detection module to detect if the female connector is in an obverse direction and a reverse direction, thereby determining if the display (40) is in an obverse direction and a reverse direction. Thus, an automatic turning process can be carried out for the adjustment of the image output. In this way, the image and antenna connection modules are integrated into a body.
Patent GB-2456018-A (GB)
Title: Monitor support apparatus
Inventor: LAU ALEX
IPC: E04H12/22
Filed: 2007-12-31
Abstract: A monitor support apparatus 1 comprises a post 7-10 and a socket 5 to receive and support the post. A cooperating mechanism 11 is provided between the post and the socket configured such that the post can be readily inserted into the socket, but wherein the cooperating mechanism engages during withdrawal of the post from the socket to resist its removal therefrom.
Patent GB-2456400-A (GB)
Title: Echo cancellation system which mitigates the effect of microphone overload
Inventor: VOS KOEN
IPC: H04B3/23
Filed: 2008-01-21
Abstract: An echo component is introduced into a microphone signal 34 to be transmitted from a near end device to a far end device (112, Fig. 1) as a result of the microphone 10 picking up not only a local user's voice 23, but also a signal received from the far end device and output by a local loudspeaker 20. The invention aims to cancel this echo component. As in conventional systems, an estimate of the frequency response of an echo path 22 is based on a measurement of the frequency response, which is preferably made when the local user is not speaking. The estimated frequency response is used to remove 24 the echo component from the microphone signal before it is transmitted. However, when the dynamic range of the microphone is exceeded and its signal becomes saturated the measured echo frequency response is inaccurate, which in prior art systems leads to incorrect echo cancellation. The inventors have addressed this problem by forcing the estimated frequency response of the echo path to increase over time when it is detected that the microphone is overloaded, regardless of whether the measured frequency response of the echo path decreases over time. In an alternative embodiment (see e.g. Fig. 4) echo attenuation is affected by controlling gain and gain is prevented from increasing over time during overload detection.
Patent GB-2448056-A (GB)
Title: Agricultural compositions for controlling or preventing plant disease caused by pathogenic microbes
Inventor: TAKAISHI MASANAO
IPC: A01N43/90
Filed: 2008-03-25
Abstract: An agricultural composition comprising an amide compound represented by the following formula (I), wherein A represents a 6-quinolyl group, a benzothiiazol-6-yl group or a [1.5]naphthylidin-2-yl group; X represents a group represented by formula -NH-C(=Y)-CH2- or a C(=Y)-NH-CH2, where Y represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a NR group; and E represents a furyl group, a thienyl group, a pyrrolyl group, a tetrazolyl group or a phenyl group; E may optionally have one or two substituents; an oxygen salt thereof, or a hydrate thereof is effective for controlling or preventing plant diseases caused by plant pathogenic microbes when an effective amount of the agricultural composition is applied to useful crops. The composition may be used to control plant disease caused by plant pathogenic microbes except for Aspergillus.
Patent GB-2445898-A (GB)
Title: Mach-Zender interferometer for charged quantum entities
Inventor: EKERT ARTUR KONRAD
IPC: G01R33/02
Filed: 2004-08-17
Abstract: This invention generally relates to apparatus and methods for sensing electric and/or magnetic fields, in particular by means of electronic Mach-Zender type interferometry. We describe a Mach-Zender interferometer for charged quantum entities, the interferometer having two arms combined to provide an output, a signal at said output being responsive to interference of said entities, said interference being modified by said field; and wherein said charged quantum entities are localised in quasi zero-dimensional states within said interferometer. The Aharonov-Bohm effect may be used.
Patent GB-2460423-A (GB)
Title: Restraining device
Inventor: BENEY MARC
IPC: F41B15/00
Filed: 2008-05-29
Abstract: A restraining device (1) for operatively engaging an individual's clothes comprises an elongate assembly (3) and an end piece (5). The elongate assembly (3) has a first end and a second end and the end piece (5) is mounted at the first end. At least a portion of the end piece (5) is tapered towards the second end of the elongate assembly (3).
Patent GB-2460470-A (GB)
Title: Inclined access assembly for a pipeline
Inventor: GARTON JOHN
IPC: F16L41/04
Filed: 2008-05-31
Abstract: An access branch assembly 1 for a pipe such as a water main or sewer 13 has an angled guide conduit 5 that provides a guiding path for feeding an elongate member into the interior of the main 13 through an aperture in its wall. The guiding path is at an acute angle to the axis of the main when the access assembly is attached to the main. The elongate member, such as a fibre-optic inspection camera, or cleaning tool rod, is therefore less likely to jam or to be forced through a shall radius of curvature on entry into the main. The assembly may include further guide conduits to aid with cutting an access hole in the main or feeding elongate tools in either the forward or reverse direction to the main. The assembly may comprise a saddle clamp 2 or it may be screwed into a threaded (tapped) hole in the main pipe wall (figure 4).
Patent GB-2447174-A (GB)
Title: Comunication cable having spacer formed in jacket
Inventor: PARK CHAN-YONG
IPC: H01B11/06
Filed: 2006-07-10
Abstract: A communication cable capable includes at least two pair units in each of which at least two insulation-coated wires are spirally twisted; a separator having a barrier for separating the pair units from each other; an outside jacket surrounding the separator and the pair units separated by the separator; and a plurality of jacket spacers provided to an inner surface of the outside jacket to separate the pair units from outside by a predetermined distance. Thus, the communication cable may prevent crosstalk generated when a high frequency signal is transmitted.
Patent GB-2460863-A (GB)
Title: Articulated leg section
Inventor: BANNISTER GRAHAME DAVID
IPC: A47C7/50
Filed: 2008-06-12
Abstract: An articulated leg section (10) for supporting a leg of a patient wherein the leg section comprises a hinged leg support (70), a rotating joint (40) for rotation of the leg support and a clamp (41) for controlling movement of the hinged leg support (70) and the rotating joint (40) wherein:the rotating joint (40) has a locked position and an unlocked position;the hinged leg support (70) may be locked; andthe clamp (41) is actuable to unlock the rotating joint (40) and the hinged leg support (70);and a cushion release mechanism.
Patent GB-2460723-A (GB)
Title: Operating a brushless doubly fed machine (BDFM)
Inventor: JALEBI EHSAN ABDI
IPC: F03D9/00
Filed: 2008-06-13
Abstract: A BDFM comprises a brushless doubly fed generator (BDFG) having a rotor, a power stator winding and a control stator winding, said rotor having a natural speed of rotation. The operating method comprising reducing an efficiency of the BDFM above its natural speed of rotation by driving power into said control stator winding above said natural speed of rotation to increase losses in said machine. Preferably driving power into the control stator winding comprises driving the control stator winding with a voltage greater than a voltage defined by a speed of rotation of said rotor, the natural speed of rotation of said rotor and a characteristic curve of the machine. The method may also comprise compensating for increased reactive power from said power stator winding due to said driving of said control stator winding with an increased voltage. This operating method finds particular application with wind turbines that are subject to gusts of wind.
Patent GB-2461900-A (GB)
Title: Storing and Displaying Parameter Data Relating to Separately Rendered Areas of an Image
Inventor: LANGTIND FRANK KLAEBOE
IPC: G06T1/60
Filed: 2008-07-16
Abstract: A graphics processing apparatus 6 is provided with rendering circuitry 24 which separately renders different areas of a frame of pixel values. Monitoring circuitry 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 coupled to the rendering circuitry 24 captures for each area rendered one or more parameters (e.g. event counts, processing cycles, cache misses, bus transactions and potentially intersecting primitives) and stores these parameters to a parameter memory 20. A performance frame can be generated from the captured and stored parameters with performance-representing pixel values for each area within the performance frame corresponding to an area within the image frame and having a visual characteristic selected in dependence upon the performance parameter which was captured. The visual characteristic may be a grey-scale value, a pixel intensity or a pixel colour.
Patent GB-2449028-A (GB)
Title: A fluid treatment tank amd a well fluid porcessing system comprising such a tank
Inventor: NILSEN P L JAHRE
IPC: B01D21/00
Filed: 2007-03-14
Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid treatment tank for use in a well fluid processing system. The tank (1) is divided into at least three compartments (10, 20, 30), including: - an oil treatment compartment (10) for receiving oil from a separator vessel of the well fluid processing system so as to allow stabilization and/or final separation and treatment of the oil; - a reject treatment compartment (20) for receiving reject fluid from one or more water treatment units of the well fluid processing system so as to allow gravitational separation of heavier and lighter components of the reject fluid; and - a water treatment compartment (30) for receiving de-oiled water from one or more water treatment units of the well fluid processing system so as to allow degassing and/or final separation of the water. The invention also relates to a well fluid processing system comprising such a fluid treatment tank.
Patent GB-2449200-A (GB)
Title: Method and system for allowing a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory
Inventor: HOLDEN PAUL
IPC: G06F13/00
Filed: 2007-06-26
Abstract: A method and system for allowing a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory is disclosed. The method and system comprises sending a play command to the media player; returning information about the media player; and providing digital audio to the accessory based upon the information about the media player. In a system and method in accordance with the present invention a plurality of commands allow a media player to transfer digital audio to an accessory. These commands are used by the media player to gather a list of supported sample rates from the accessory and to inform the accessory of the media player's information.
Patent GB-2465819-A (GB)
Title: Flame-retardant treatment of textile materials
Inventor: HAND GEOFFREY
IPC: C07F9/6584
Filed: 2008-12-03
Abstract: A method for treating textile material to confer flame retardant properties. The method comprises the steps of: (a) impregnating the material with an aqueous solution of a treatment agent which is a poly (hydroxyorgano) phosphonium compound; (b) drying the impregnated material; (c) curing the dried impregnated material with ammonia to produce a cured, water-insoluble polymer which is mechanically fixed within the fibres of the material; (d) oxidising the cured polymer to convert trivalent phosphorus to pentavalent phosphorus; (e) washing and drying the material. The conditions in the method are controlled such that the atomic ratio of N:P present on the material increases during step (c) by 0.8 or more. One or both of steps (d) and (e) result in the co-production of an aqueous effluent. The method may involve removing 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane and/or derivatives thereof from the aqueous effluent.
Patent GB-2483620-A (GB)
Title: Attachment mechanism between carrier and trolley
Inventor: OSBORN SIMON
IPC: A63B55/00
Filed: 2009-01-29
Abstract: An attachment mechanism 100 which provides for a releasable attachment to be made between a trolley and a carrier 78, wherein the trolley has a rigid cross bar 80 comprises a latch adapted to cooperate with the rigid cross bar 80; the latch comprising a movable part operable to move between a locked position and an open position, preferably, the trolley is a golf trolley and the carrier 78 a golf bag, or the trolley is a buggy and the carrier 78 a child carrier.
Patent GB-2467391-A (GB)
Title: Self-timer photography
Inventor: KIM EUN-YOUNG
IPC: G03B9/64
Filed: 2009-07-08
Abstract: A self-timer photographing apparatus and method involves checking the number of persons using an image capturing device having a self-timer function. The number of persons is checked by a digital image processing device and the apparatus includes a digital signal processing unit for detecting a change in the number of faces of a live view image and detecting positions of faces of the live view image. When there is nochange in the positions of faces during a predetermined period of time, controlling to perform self-timer photographing.
Patent GB-2461453-A (GB)
Title: Computational user-health testing
Inventor: JUNG EDWARD K Y
IPC: G06Q10/00
Filed: 2009-10-22
Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out detecting user data from an interaction between a user and at least one device-implemented application whose primary function is different from symptom detection; mapping the user data from the interaction between the user and the at least one device-implemented application whose primary function is different from symptom detection to at least one user-health test function set; and selecting at least one user-health test function in response to the at least one user-health test function set.
Patent GB-2465061-A (GB)
Title: Fire extinguishing device
Inventor: DINGLEY KATHLEEN
IPC: A62C8/06
Filed: 2009-11-02
Abstract: A fire extinguishing device 1 is provided with an instruction module 15 comprising electronic circuitry 17 operative to produce aural instructions on how to operate the device 1. The instruction module 15 further comprises a switch 21 and a speaker 23, arranged such that in use of the device 1, the switch 21 activates the electronic circuitry 17 to emit the aural instructions produced by the electronic circuitry 17 through the speaker 21. The switch may be activated by removal of a pin or may be in triggered by removal of the device from its mount. The switch may be a photoelectric cell. The device may be an extinguisher, hydrant or fire blanket.
Patent GB-2467826-A (GB)
Title: Capillary column interfacing device
Inventor: COMPTON BRUCE J
IPC: B01D15/08
Filed: 2004-10-07
Abstract: A high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) system interfacing between a chromatographic system 230 and a mass spectrometer 340 wherein the system comprises an HPLC capillary column cartridge cassette 200 adapted to receive data from the chromatographic system, and includes connection for receiving a gas flow 216, heat 206 and voltage 212 applied to a liquid sample within a capillary column 160 of the cassette. A mass spectrometer interface device 240 is provided which includes a cartridge cassette holder 250 for holding the cartridge cassette and for transmitting the liquid sample in a charged atomized condition to the mass spectrometer. Also disclosed is a method of processing a sample from a high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) system.
Patent GB-561015-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to domestic washing machines
IPC: D06F13/02
Filed: 1942-07-20
Abstract: 561,015. Washing machine. ACME WRINGERS, Ltd., TENNANT, J., and ROSS, D. C. (executors of Burt, J. W.). July 20, 1942, No. 10107. [Class 138 (ii)] A manually operable washing machine having an under-drive for the usual oscillatory agitator has the spindle of the agitator projecting through the bottom of the tank and fitted with a gear wheel 8 driven through spur gears 7, 6 gearing with a sliding rack 10 reciprocated by a pinion 5 rolled along a fixed rack 9 by means of a hand-lever 4 pivoted at 16 and passing through a ball in a socket 14 carried by a slide 13. Instead of the ball-and-socket arrangement the slide carrying the pinion 5 may be connected to the lever 4 by a link pivoted to the lever and the slide.
Patent GB-682847-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to the synchronization of pictures in television
IPC: H04N5/067
Filed: 1949-04-14
Abstract: 682,847. Television. RADIO-INDUSTRIE. April 14, 1949 [April 17, 1948], No. 10225/49. Class 40 (iii). In a television system in which the line synchronizing pulses are sent without interruption as amplitudemodulation signals and the frame pulses are transmitted as frequency modulation signals, the frame pulses are converted by a discriminator to amplitude modulation signals and applied to a time circuit with a constant such that the residual line pulses are not allowed to attain their full amplitude. The frame signals with their attenuated line signals are then clipped to remove the residual line pulses. The transmitting arrangement, Figs. 1, 2 (not shown), is practically identical with that described in Specification 621,484, the line impulses being amplitude-modulations of a carrier, and the frame pulses being transmitted as a frequency variation or modulation of the carrier. At the receiver, Fig. 3, the intermediate-frequency signal a is clipped at its top and bottom to remove the picture signals by a valve P1 having a suitable cathode bias and a low plate voltage in combination with a high load impedance Zp in the plate circuit. The combined line and frame signals are applied through an inductive coupling L1, L3 to a diode D3 which is practically insensitive to the small frequency changes and has as its output the line pulses 10 utilized to control the line sawtooth generator. The pulses 10 cause the valve P2 to conduct, thereby discharging a condenser C3 which charges over a resistance R3 during the interval between the pulses 10. The output of the valve P1 is also fed via condenser C and via inductive couplings L1, L2 to two diodes D1 and D2, the arrangement being that at resonance, say for the frequency n, the induced voltages are displaced Œ90 degrees relative to the capacitatively applied voltage so that at resonance the output is zero. When the frequency changes to n<1>, however, a resultant voltage is produced from the diodes D1, D2 and can be similar to the pulse 1 with portions 10 corresponding to the line impulses. If the line pulses 10 modulate the carrier down to zero, Fig. 6, a number of pulses 10 may remain in the extracted frame pulse and these can be reduced by applying the pulse to circuits having a time constant d two or three times as great as the duration e of a line pulse so that the residual line pulses are much reduced in amplitude, as indicated by Fig. 7. The residual impulses, as indicated at 10 in Fig. 3, are eliminated by a separate clipping tube or by a suitably biased valve in the multivibrator 16 for producing the saw-tooth oscillations I1.
Patent GB-1036076-A (GB)
Title: Substituted cyclohexene carboxylic acids
IPC: A61K31/19
Filed: 1964-03-11
Abstract: The invention comprises the compounds 2 - methyl - 3 - ethyl - 4 - phenyl - D 4 - cyclohexenecarboxylic acid and 2-methyl-3-ethyl-4-phenyl - D 3 - cyclohexenecarboxylic acid; and their preparation by dehydrating 2-methyl-3-ethyl - 4 - phenyl - 4 - hydroxy - cyclohexanoic acid (obtainable from 2-ethyl-3-methyl-4-carb-oxycyclohexanone with phenyl magnesium bromide) using hot glacial acetic acid and p-toluenesulphonic acid.
Patent GB-1002998-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to microwave filtering apparatus
Inventor: SALZBERG EDWARD
IPC: H01P1/208
Filed: 1962-03-16
Abstract: 1,002,998. Microwave filters. MICROWAVE DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES Inc. March 16, 1962, No. 10265/62. Heading H1W. A waveguide microwave filter comprises a resonant element 13 and a pair of reactive elements 23, 24 spaced on either side of the resonant element not more than a quarterwavelength apart. Element 13 may be in the form of a resonant window and elements 23, 24 may consist of conductive strips extending between the narrow walls of the waveguide. These provide capacitance. The structure has a band-pass characteristic which exhibits three attenuation zeros within the band-pass. More elements may be used to form an iterative structure. In a modification, the resonant central element comprises two inductive posts 61, 62, Fig. 5, and a pair of capacitative probes 63, 64. These may form the discharge gap of a TR tube. Alternatively, the probes may be movable, e.g. by means of a solenoid, to effect a short-circuit across the waveguide.